2003 … Walking the Wasteland
Then, after being on the receiving end of a series of “small miracles” in and around Ala Moana Park, I ended up hitching a ride on a three-seat Cessna to the Big Island of Hawaii. I arrived well after dark and simply began walking south, initially hitchhiking away from the Kailua-Kona airport by catching a ride through the surrounding wastelands with a kind local named Chris …
“If I saw you hitchhiking, I’d smile warmly and return your thumb’s up, just for you doing such a great job of being a positive roadside influence.” ~ Jarod Kintz
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. And yet the most daring & important thing they need to do is create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured and the awful scourge of selfishness can be eradicated … Remember; one can acquire everything in solitude except character.” ~ via Kurt Vonnegut & Stendhal
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